LordDarth had rather too eventful a night, with his attempt to stay pet-levelling in Maargadum Jail on Hatzring-4. First, there was one of those "vital" Microsoft updates, which arrogantly decided it simply must restart the computer, so that stopped Darth in his tracks for a while. Then, as inevitably happens occasionally down on level five, a death mask soldier got too near, and joined the fight, killing Darth's poor horse. A second death mask lancer got involved too, they are protective of each other, but LordDarth's armour was, luckily, up to the challenge, and even three foes couldn't hurt him.
So, Darth had to return to Randol and get the animal trainer to "unseal" his dead pet, which with the pet at level 33 now cost 243,936 gold, and then he had to get back to Maargadum and run back down again. Still, all was well - until soon after nine he got a disconnection, so had to be logged back in, moved to the Jail, and run through the levels once more.
MistressDomino on Auzura-5 had had a good night selling items; she'd been on the newer computer, and I'd restarted that late yesterday as I knew it had updates to install for Vista, even though there was at that time no indication that the older XP-running machine would also be hit. I checked around the other merchants this morning, and it looks as if I sold some heaven stones rather cheaply - or maybe the prices a few people are asking, of almost three times the usual level, are only a hangover from a recent 50% upgrade event, and nobody would now pay that much.
I couldn't find anybody selling chaos balls on that server, to give me an idea what to charge for them... but what I did find was a level 87 healer helm, blue named, with the five evasion seals, +14, for 550 million, being sold by killmenow. So, that's one part of Kaerella's next armour set sorted, though she can't wear it yet.
RedRackham went out to do a little pet-levelling with the bandits in Merac on Auzura-4, as I wasn't actually able to do any fighting before lunch. His drake may already be level 37, but a bit more experience is always useful. By the end of the breakm level 38 was getting reasonably near.
For the afternoon session, RedRydeR headed for Prokion Temple on Cariae-5 again - getting her up to around level 55 is one of my main priorities at the moment, and as, for level 35 at least, she doesn't have to have another character within range for a combat party or other arrangement, it's handy that LordDarth can keep going with his pet-levelling.
So, my favourite back room was available, and a full session, lasting around 2 hours 40 minutes, produced 9.50% experience plus 110 guild points, along with 421 skill points.
I also had time to check Roy's merchant mart, and found a +15 pair of gloves to complete Barbarienne's set, again for 550 million. The only slight problem is that these "Ebade Gloves of Dimension +15", while blue-named, meaning they give the maximum defence, only have four rather than five evasion seals, giving an increase of 78 to close range and 67 to long range evasion, plus twice 56 evasion - they don't add any dexterity. So, if I have the gold and do see +15 b5e healer gloves some day, I may well be tempted to buy them, and sell these. But I'd been looking for a few days without any luck, so it seemed a good idea to get what I could.
The evening session was a pretty similar thing, but about an hour longer, so RedRydeR had to quickly teleport back to town when the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff ran out, get it from Elizabeth again, and hurry back. 11.51% experience was just enough to get RedRydeR into level 36; she earned another 134 guild points for Discipline, and a further 584 skill points, meaning that the two sessions between them gave her just over a thousand skill points.
Our tactics will change now for Red; in her new level with a solo party the orc sergeants and axemen still give the same experience figures, which with the experience gain on 50% thanks to the guild semi-freeze, and the Elizabuff to double it again, are 1896 and 1284 respectively. However the skill exp falls from 4400 and 2200 to 3300 and 1100, so doing the level in a solo party way just would take too long and not be worth all the trouble. Bringing in a lower-level character ought to speed things up dramatically.
Reaching level 36 means that the special "neckless" RedRyder was given at level 20 can no longer be equipped. So, MistressDomina bought an extra "Eyes of Spirit" accessory from AdarenHUN, who was in merchant mode on Cariae-4 close to Roy - with its 168 increase to long range physical hit rate, along with 78 close range evasion, plus 44 each to health and mana, it makes a decent replacement for the "Fatal Neckless of Rogue", which also gave the 168, along with a rather better 112 close range evasion, and added 16 to dexterity and 20 to the chance of a critical hit. There seem to be two types of "neckless" for each character, one following each of the class choices - Red luckily got the ranger-type one, rather than the assassin version, which is more suitable for close-range combat.
LordDarth continued his pet-levelling; there was one point after lunch when a death mask soldier did get involved, but luckily it didn't do any damage to the horse, concentrating on Darth, who, once I noticed the situation, was able to kill it, and then return to fighting the death mask lancer. By the end of the evening, level 35 had been safely reached, but if RedRydeR needs a companion in future, Darth won't get the chance to do any more day-long sessions for a while.
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